(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein

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(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy. It will intrigue readers interested in issues of interpretation and cultural studies. This book tells the story - as yet untold - of Wittgenstein interpretation during the past eighty years. It provides different interpretations, chronologies, developments, and controversies. It aims to discover the (socio-cultural rather than psychological) motives and motivations behind the philosophical community's project of interpreting Wittgenstein. As a cultural history of ideas, it traces the parallelism between Wittgenstein interpretation and the move from metaphysics, to language, to postmodernism effected in the twentieth century. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Interpretation and Overinterpretation....Pages 13-28 Front Matter....Pages 29-33 The First Station: Logico-Linguistic (Anti-)Metaphysics....Pages 35-46 The Second Station: Sophisticated Metaphysics (And Meaning as Use)....Pages 47-58 The Third Station: Reasonable Meta-Readings....Pages 59-79 The Fourth Station: Taking Nonsense Seriously....Pages 81-93 The Fifth Station: Over the Deep end, or the Ethical Reading....Pages 95-105 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Mathematics....Pages 109-127 Religion....Pages 129-144 Social Science....Pages 145-161 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Going Continental....Pages 165-178 Going Diverse....Pages 179-186 Idolatry and Fashion....Pages 187-198 Back Matter....Pages 199-251